Media Ngannou tried to purposely knockout UFC contender in sparring.

Unless they have footage, I'm calling bullshit like just about everything that comes out of Ank's mouth. My guess is that it was a mildly tense sparring session and he got lit up a couple times.
 
SalvadorAllende said:
IDK man. If you are Francis size you can't be sparring hard. You will likely KO and get KOed a lot.
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You don't have to be trying to kill your opponent, but you should be sparring hard enough so that they will be stunned if you connect.

You're training to hurt, not to play.


SalvadorAllende said:
I did kickboxing and muay thai for a gazillion yeaars.. I always preferred sparring soft like thais do. Whenever I had to turn up and go violent I could do it with no problem. I guess not everybody has that on them tho.
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I used to box at the 5th story of the old Lincoln Heights Jail (Los Angeles Youth Athletic Club, aka: LAYAC) in the early- mid 80s. Its proprietor, Johnny Flores died in the mid-90s, stepping into a non-functioning elevator in this old prison. Flores was a decorated war hero, and he helped establish Golden-Glove Boxing in the community, but after his death, the gym closed, but the jail still remains. They are thinking about demolishing the old prison, but many in the community consider the jail a monument to the city.

Anyway, the sparring there wasn't playing or messing around. You were sparring for real, not to play games, but it was controlled intensity.

I wasn't there to play, I was there to develop fighting skill, and I still remember the words of my trainer, Archie Grant, "Relax, it's only fighting."

Learning how to relax, in the middle of a fire-fight, is the hallmark of a truly-skilled fighter.

You don't get to that level, ever, by "going soft" ...

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Some of you guys really need to click on the article and read the entire thing. Ankalaev was trying to help Francis with sharpening his wrestling which is when Francis tried to KO Ank because Ank KO'ed a friend of his. Since then though Ank and Francis squashed whatever they had and are on good terms. The above has nothing to do with Francis helping Ankalaev prepare for Alex..
 
koa pomaikai said:
I mean if Mago isn’t lying, it isn’t just heated sparring, it was personal. Ngannou was out for blood for a friend.
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Don't forget that Ngannou also apparently did this before to Gane when he felt they were switching their attention to him over Ngannou so he randomly KO'd him in sparring.

It has never not been funny to see people absolutely beclown themselves trying to say Francis is a good dude, something that been known to be false for like over half a decade, simply because they hate the UFC.
 
CatchtheseHands said:
Some of you guys really need to click on the article and read the entire thing. Ankalaev was trying to help Francis with sharpening his wrestling which is when Francis tried to KO Ank because Ank KO'ed a friend of his. Since then though Ank and Francis squashed whatever they had and are on good terms. The above has nothing to do with Francis helping Ankalaev prepare for Alex..
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What does that have to do with being a piece of shit for trying to KO a guy 50lbs less than you
 
Beheading people is poor etiquette in a lot of places, but I can still think of a few countries where he could box.
 
Ank is finally catching on. Being the rightful contender won't get him a TS, but shittimg on Frank in a public setting, will win him some points with the boss. All he needs to do is shit on Tito and whoever Dana hates next week and he'll be in good favour with the UFC brass.
 
IronGolem007 said:
You don't have to be trying to kill your opponent, but you should be sparring hard enough so that they will be stunned if you connect.

You're training to hurt, not to play.




I used to box at the 5th story of the old Lincoln Heights Jail (Los Angeles Youth Athletic Club, aka: LAYAC) in the early- mid 80s. Its proprietor, Johnny Flores died in the mid-90s, stepping into a non-functioning elevator in this old prison. Flores was a decorated war hero, and he helped establish Golden-Glove Boxing in the community, but after his death, the gym closed, but the jail still remains. They are thinking about demolishing the old prison, but many in the community consider the jail a monument to the city.

Anyway, the sparring there wasn't playing or messing around. You were sparring for real, not to play games, but it was controlled intensity.

I wasn't there to play, I was there to develop fighting skill, and I still remember the words of my trainer, Archie Grant, "Relax, it's only fighting."

Learning how to relax, in the middle of a fire-fight, is the hallmark of a truly-skilled fighter.

You don't get to that level, ever, by "going soft" ...

.
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It also depends on whether you are a pro or not and how you manage your career. If the goal is to toughen up, then fine. But for ex. the Thais spar soft and technical because they will have hundreds of fights and that’s the only way you can truly learn to “relax under fire”. If you want to learn to fight, then fight. There is no substitute.

Sparring is preparation and everyone approaches it differently. Lots of hard sparring guys are pussycats come fight day tho. In fact the hardest sparring guys I’ve ever encountered never had a fight in their lives and are compensating for something 🤷‍♂️

Tldr; listen to your coach, if he says go hard do that, if he says go soft do that.
 
IronGolem007 said:
I don't believe in "light sparring," for the most part.

Unless you're working on drills, and specific combinations, sparring should be fairly intense.

No, you don't go for the KO if you wobble your sparring partner, you let him back in — but once in, then you continue to go pretty hard.

My trainer always said, "What you do = habit-forming" ... meaning, if you want to BE for real, then you need to train for real.

For example, a professional drummer doesn't "go soft" on the drum set in practice — and then expect to go all out in a rock concert. He may not go full throttle in a jam session, but he will be pretty close to it the whole time.

Again, repetitive drills to master technique notwithstanding, you can't expect to go half-ass in sparring, and be a fearsome killer in the cage.

You have to practice pretty effin hard ... to be prepared to go effin hard at your best when it's for real.

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True.
Sparring is supposed to replicate a fight.
 
IronGolem007 said:
You don't have to be trying to kill your opponent, but you should be sparring hard enough so that they will be stunned if you connect.

You're training to hurt, not to play.
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Disagree. You can sparr hard from time to time only.

As long as you can turn it up when it's time it is all good.. but I guess a lot of people just do not have it in them.
 
Sean Chowdhury said:
getting 2 million dollar paychecks for all of your opponents does sound like the behavior of a good man
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But what about the rest of the fighters in the org, PFL can’t even book them a fight because they don’t have money to pay them. O wait, I thought about Ngannou should pay them out of his bank account since he made 50million not that long ago.
 
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